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Increasing Volunteerism in Parks

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Tips and advice from volunteer coordinators around the country on recruitment, recognition, coordination, liability, and more. Includes four case studies on volunteer programs. From the Urban Parks Institute.
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Conducting a System-Wide Park Assessment

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Examples and strategies adapted from Portland Parks & Recreation's Parks Assessment Summary.
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Rating New York’s Parks and Playgrounds

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
New York City's Park and Recreation Supervisor Henry Stern walks us through an evaluatory process to rate the city's playgrounds.
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Publicizing Your Event

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Attract new volunteers and raise your profile with these tips on flyers, media contacts and other ways to promote an event, from Partnerships for Parks.

Planning Successful Events

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Olmsted Crescent Marketing Plan

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Learn from this savvy plan, which brings together numerous partners as a collaborative to create promotional benefits that no organization could achieve on its own. Submitted by the Olmsted Cresent, a consortium of cultural resources and institutions in Buffalo, New York.
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Who Let the Dogs Out?

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment

Dog owners who use Fort Greene Park on a regular basis earned off-leash hours, thanks to the efforts of the Fort Greene Park Users and Pets Society (P.U.P.S.).

Fort Greene P.U.P.S.

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Effective Outreach Techniques

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Great advice from Partnership for Parks on how parks groups can draw in new people to support their work.

Effective Outreach & Publications

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Making Your Park Safer

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Advice from New York City’s Partnerships for Parks on activities that can crowd out crime, what to do about specific crime problems, and working with the police. Some info is NYC-specific, but it’s an overall excellent resource.

Making Your Park Safer

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The Tipping Point

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment

This New Yorker article from 1996 by Malcolm Gladwell has become a minor classic fusing concepts of safety, sociology, and urban life with disease research.

The Tipping Point

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Establishing a Friends-of-the-Park Group

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Based on interviews with leaders of successful park groups, these tip sheets from Partnerships for Parks cover the ins and outs of starting a “friends” group: goals, structure, publicity, money and more.

Establishing a Friends-of-the-Park Group

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Handling Money

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
A top-notch tip sheet for small parks groups, from New York City's Partnership for Parks.
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No Dogs Allowed?

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When New York City cracked down, dog owners piped up — and New York Magazine ran a feature story.

Turf War

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